Astronomers have found plenty of white dwarf stars surrounded by debris disks. Those disks are the remains of planets destroyed…
Astronomers have discovered an intense binary star system located about 1,400 light years away. It contains a brown dwarf with…
Astronomers have found a brown dwarf companion to a white dwarf star with a day-side temperature of around 8,000 kelvin…
We know what will happen to our Sun. It'll follow the same path other stars of its ilk follow. It'll…
The most energetic explosions in the Universe come from stars called supernovae. These galactic bombs have the energy of about…
Astronomers can determine the size of a black hole by the way it consumes nearby matter.
A white dwarf star has been found that's more massive than our Sun, but about the same size as our…
Binary star systems are everywhere. They make up a huge percentage of all known solar systems: from what we can…
The Big Bang produced the Universe's hydrogen, helium, and a little lithium. Since then, it's been up to stars (for…
Some very powerful telescopes will see first light in the near future. One of them is the long-awaited James Webb…